Sunday, January 29, 2012

We
are delighted to announce a successful digitization collaboration
between the Musées d’Art et d’Histoire of Geneva (MAH) and the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation-supported research project "Creating a Sustainable
Digital Cuneiform Library (CSDCL)."

Under the
general direction of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI -
Los Angeles/Berlin), CSDCL is dedicated to the digital capture,
persistent archiving and web dissemination of major cuneiform
collections in the US, Europe and the Middle East. The 950 cuneiform
artifacts of the MAH, originally collected by the noted Swiss
Assyrioliogist Alfred Boissier (1867-1945, PhD 1890 at Leipzig under F.
Delitzsch) and acquired by the Museum in 1938, represent a significant
archive of texts in a major Swiss collection. In communications dating
back to early 2008 between one of us (Englund)
and Antoine Cavigneaux of the University of Geneva, the capture of the
MAH cuneiform collection was discussed and a plan for this collaboration
presented by Cavigneaux to the Museum early in 2011. With the support
of Geneva graduate student Émilie Pagé-Perron, CDLI's catalogue
documenting the MAH collection, then numbering 391 entries of published
texts dating to the 3rd millennium BC as well as to the Old Assyrian
period, was supplemented with the full electronic catalogue of artifacts
supplied by the Museum. Once an agreement of cooperation was signed
between CDLI and MAH, CSDCL's Max Planck Institute for the History of
Science (Berlin) postdoctoral researcher Ludek Vacin arranged for two
capture missions to Geneva, that took place in July and November of
2011. Following fatcross-processing and cleansing in Los Angeles of the
raw images created by Vacin, these files have now been posted to the
CDLI website, and can be viewed at <http://cdli.ucla.edu/collections/mah/mah_fr.html>.
Pagé-Perron and Emmert Clevenstine of the University of Geneva are
correcting the bibliographical and text content references in the MAH
catalogue, and the imaging of some few remaining texts by Ms.
Pagé-Perron will complete the formal capture of the originals.

MAH
enthusiastically joined this effort to make available its complete
cuneiform collection to the world-wide community of web researchers and
informal learners. This new web content will assist cuneiform
specialists in the collation of existing editions, including ca. 290 Ur
III records published by H. Sauren in MVN 2 (1974); 52 Old Assyrian
texts by P. Garelli in RA 59-60 (1965-1966); 20 Ur III letters by E.
Sollberger, TCS 1 (1966), as well as 8 ED IIIb accounts by the same
author in Genava 26 (1948); and 30 texts from various periods by W.
Deonna in Genava 17 (1939) (in JCS 5 [1951], Sollberger published
catalogue treatments of a large number of still unedited MAH tablets).
We believe that general access to images of all text artifacts
establishes the broadest possible foundation for integrative research on
MAH and related cuneiform inscriptions by the scholarly community, and
we are particularly keen to assist specialists in the preparation of
scholarly editions of the nearly 500 documents currently listed as
"unpublished unassigned" in our catalogue entries (<http://tinyurl.com/6ugtndn>).

We
are confident that our adherence in this collaboration to the
principles of open access expressed, for instance, in the "Berlin
Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities,"
promulgated by the German Max Planck Society (<http://oa.mpg.de/lang/en-uk/berlin-prozess/berliner-erklarung/>),
best serves all in the Humanities, but particularly those in the fields
of dead language research so dependent on access to source materials
for their work. In opening to world-wide inspection cuneiform
collections such as that located in Geneva, we join other cultural
heritage and research institutions in CDLI's 'extended family' who
believe that humanists should make every effort to fulfill their
curatorial and scholarly responsibilities to permanently archive, and to
make available to the public all artifacts of shared world history that
are in their immediate, or indirect care.

Friday, January 27, 2012

The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
(ISSN 0-193-600XX) is the organ of the International Association of
Buddhist Studies. The JIABS welcomes scholarly contributions in all
areas of Buddhist Studies. A double-blind peer-review process is used to
ensure the high academic quality of all contributions.

This website offers full access to the JIABS. Current issues will be
available online 60 months after their appearance in print. We apologize
that, for technical reasons, it is currently not possible to make
available the most recent issues to IABS members through this website.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

The Tyndale Bulletin (formerly the Tyndale House Bulletin) which is an
assessed journal, is published twice a year and is the journal of
Tyndale House, Cambridge, and of the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical
and Theological Research.

Offers of articles for publication are
welcome. Contributions are expected to be compatible with the
doctrinal basis of the House and Fellowship. Before submitting an
article, please read our guidelines on Submission of Articles.

Vivarium is the home of digitized manuscripts, art, rare books,
photographs, and other resources from two Benedictine
monastic and educational communities in central Minnesota. It is a
searchable database delivering a
variety of digital objects. Vivarium was created and is maintained by the
Hill
Museum & Manuscript Library.

Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library has been preserving manuscripts
photographically for over 40 years. Over the years, other collections
of art, rare books, photographs, etc., have been added to HMML's
holdings

EMIP Ethiopian Manuscripts and Scrolls
The EMIP Collection of Ethiopian Manuscript Images is the result of the
work of the Ethiopian Manuscript Imaging Project (EMIP) to digitize
manuscripts and magic scrolls held in private collections in North
America

eBeth Arké Syriac Studies Collection
eBeth Arké is a collection of digitized materials related to Syriac
studies and the churches of the Syriac Christian tradition. It is a
project of Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

La Revista d’Arqueologia de Ponent (RAP) és la
publicació anual de la Unitat d’Arqueologia, Prehistòria i Història
Antiga del Departament d’Història de la Universitat de Lleida. S’edita
mitjançant un conveni de col·laboració amb la Paeria-Ajuntament de
Lleida i la Fundació Pública Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs.La RAP publica preferentment articles sobre
Prehistòria, Arqueologia i Història Antiga de la Península Ibèrica i
sobre les seves relacions amb Europa i el Mediterrani tant a nivell
teòric i metodològic com de presentació de resultats d’excavacions,
síntesis o estudis crítics. La llengua de la revista és el català i
rep articles en totes les llengües oficials de l’Estat, així com en
anglès, italià, francès i alemany. Aplica un sistema d’avaluació
externa per a cadascun dels treballs rebuts (revisió d'experts)...The Revista d’Arqueologia de Ponent (RAP) is an
annual publication of the Archaeology, Prehistory and Ancient History
Unit of the University of Lleida History Department. It is published
through a cooperation agreement with the Lleida City Council and the
Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs Public Foundation.The journal mainly publishes reports on the
prehistory, archaeology and ancient history of the Iberian Peninsula and
its links to Europe and the Mediterranean in the theoretical and
methodological fields, as well as presenting excavation results,
summaries and critical studies. All the articles received are peer
reviewed...

Hima Mesopotamia is an international NGO dedicated to the
health of the people and ecosystems of the Mesopotamian Marshes through
the promotion of responsible stewardship of the Tigris–Euphrates
watershed.

By creating a network of individuals & organizations
that are involved in water, health, ecological, economic, and human
rights issues in the Middle East, Hima Mesopotamia aims to provide a
forum for cultural and environmental information exchange to support
ecological and cultural health.
Our Vision: the restoration and maintenance of the ecological and cultural heritage of the Tigris Euphrates watershed.

Our Mission: To nurture the eco-cultural heritage of the Tigris-Euphrates watershed through

Outreach, coordination and capacity building among grassroots
organizations working throughout the watershed, policy makers, and the
international community.

Synthesis of scientific information, traditional and local knowledge.

Provide a forum for cultural and environmental information exchange
between individuals, local, national, and international groups via art,
media, public speaking and scientific conferences.

The Sealands Archaeology and Environment Program conducts archaeological, geoarchaeological, and paleoenvironmental research, in order to understand how cities in Iraq sustained themselves through deep time. The results of this work will guide projects to restore environmental services to Iraq's southern cities, promote resilient environmental management strategies, and support sustainable lifeways for the future.

We take our name from the marsh realm between Sumer and Elam, known during the second millennium BCE as “The Sealands” or “Mat Tamti,” which encompassed much of the area of the now-dry Hammar marshes. Based on inscriptions from the site, Roux suggested that Tell Abu Salabikh, formerly at the center of Lake Hammar, was seat of the historical figure Marduk-apla-iddina II (biblical Merodach-Baladan), and center city of The Sealands.Always a place of refuge and sustenance at the heart of the Mesopotamian marshlands, The Sealands, and their highly productive marshland lifeways, remain virtually unexplored by archaeologists.

The identification of ancient places with modern sites is not always certain. We have followed the certainty codes 1-4 in Parpola and Porter, Helsinki atlas (2001), and coloured the pins in the Google Earth (KMZ) files accordingly:

Saturday, January 21, 2012

This collection of testimonies aims at collecting in a database the text of
the sources related to the so-called presocratic philosophers.

This collection of testimonies has been at first limited to Milesian
(Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes) and Eleatic philosophers (Xenophanes,
Parmenides, Zeno, Melissus). This limitation was only a practical one.
This web site, and the database attached to it, is only to be considered
as a prototype of what an exhaustive collection of testimonies related
to presocratic philosophers should look like. The work has not to be
considered as a finished one : indexations, at many levels, have not
been completed, texts are still lacking, etc.

ARQUEOLOGÍAis an bi-annual peer-reviewed publication of the Instituto de
Arqueología, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos
Aires (25 de Mayo 217, 3er piso, C1002ABE, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos
Aires, Argentina). This journal publishes original papers on
archaeology as well as results of interdisciplinary -although
archaeologically oriented- research. Thus, the journal seeks to
establish a professional arena for communication and discussion of
ideas within the field of the discipline.
Suitable topics for manuscripts include theory, methodology or case
studies of any region (either argentine or foreign) and period. The
contributions can be published in Spanish as well as in English.
Authors submit their contributions as ARTICLES or NOTES (brief
manuscripts that present preliminary results of on-going research).
These contributions are reviewed by national and/or international
researchers. The journal also welcomes COMMENTS on articles already
published. In this case, the authors whose paper is being commented are
given the chance to submit their reply. BOOK REVIEWS and SUMMARIES OF
THE GRADUATE THESIS AND DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS in archaeology defended
at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the Universidad de Buenos
Aires are published as well.
This publication is indexed in Latindex, Dialnet, REBIUN, Scopus, DOAJ, Anthropological Index Online, Hollis Classics and IPUFyL.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.